Aggregator
LA Referencia
Federated network of eleven Latin American countries plus Spain, which aggregates articles and theses (not research data).
How it connects
Who is behind it
Builds on
- LA Referencia implements OpenAIRE Guidelines.
Connects to
- LA Referencia indexes SciELO. LA Referencia indexes the national collections of SciELO.
- LA Referencia interoperates with OpenAIRE. Harvests from national nodes under the OpenAIRE guidelines since 2016.
- LA Referencia is a member of COAR. Listed on COAR's members page as a network with its own associated members.
- ANID is a member of LA Referencia. Chile participates in LA Referencia through ANID.
- Espacio Ciencia is part of LA Referencia. Chile's national node within the federated LA Referencia network.
Related to
- LA Referencia relates to Research repository. A federated network that aggregates records from institutional repositories.
Links
Details
Description
LA Referencia brings together more than five million metadata records. It is funded mainly by annual contributions from member countries and interoperates with OpenAIRE.
Attributes
| url | https://www.lareferencia.info/ |
|---|---|
| identifiers | ror: 024pbfj84, wikidata: Q65557864 |
| status | active |
| governance | Intergovernmental |
| outputLicence | open |
| codebase | open-source |
| prominence | core |
| note | Federated network of eleven Latin American countries plus Spain, funded by member-country contributions [M§6] — no single funding organisation to cite as a `funded-by` target. |
| type | Aggregator |
| aggregatorKind | harvesting-network |
| harvestProtocols | oai-pmh |
| memberCountries | AR, BR, CL, CO, MX, PE, UY, ES |
| objectScope | article, thesis |
| Tags | function: aggregation, region: Latin America, openness: open governance |
| Geography | latam |
Sources
- https://infrafinder.investinopen.org/solutions/la-referencia(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): More than 5 million records; ANID (Chile) listed under current affiliations; funded mainly by annual member-country contributions.
- https://www.lareferencia.info/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04): Site historically also served over http://; canonical https homepage cited here.
- https://www.openaire.eu/la-referencia-openaire-and-coar-committed-to-a-shared-vision-of-a-global-network-of-repositories(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04)
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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